About to Heat Up...
Today was pretty wild with pop-up downpours containing heavy rain and even pea-sized hail. The upper level trough and its cold pocket of air triggering these showers and thunderstorms will drift east of us late tonight and early tomorrow morning. The atmosphere will be much more stable tomorrow and even though a few cumulus will form none of them will grow into towers or thunderstorms and the day will be nearly perfect for the Sox home opener.
As we move into the weekend warmth will be moving into New England. It starts on Saturday as high pressure establishes itself off the Eastern Seaboard...a Summer position. SW winds will start the process of transporting in the warmth and temps will work up through the 60s close to 70 during the afternoon. The leading edge of even warmer air will work in late Saturday night, this will kick off a few showers as it arrives but those showers will be gone by Sunday morning and sunshine will boost temps into the 70s close to 80. Another surge of warm air will be arriving in the evening and that may kick off a late day shower or thunderstorm.
We've been stressing all week about the forecast for the Boston Marathon some indications have been for cooler weather and others for warmer...but now most if not all indications are for MUCH warmer. This could be record breaking heat for the marathon and that is obviously not good for the runners and racers and could in fact turn into a very dangerous situation.
